Jesus cares for and provides for the vulnerable. You are in His body, and He blesses you when you care for others.

Jesus cares for and provides for the vulnerable. You are in His body, and He blesses you when you care for others.

“it shall be for the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.” (Deut 24:19)
“But God composed the body, having given greater honor to that part which lacks it, that there should be no schism in the body, but that the members should have the same care [merimnao] for one another.” (1Cor 12:24,25)
“casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you.” (1Pet 5:7)
“Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?” (Matt 6:26)
“Do not fear therefore; you are of more value than many sparrows.” (Matt 10:31)
“But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Do not fear therefore; you are of more value than many sparrows.” (Lk 12:7)
“Consider the ravens, for they neither sow nor reap, which have neither storehouse nor barn; and God feeds them. Of how much more value are you than the birds?” (Lk 12:24)
“He said to Him, Yes, Lord; You know that I love You. He said to him, Feed My lambs.” (Jn 21:15)
“And Abraham said, My son, God will provide for Himself the lamb for a burnt offering.” (Gen 22:8)
“And Abraham called the name of the place, The-LORD-Will-Provide; as it is said to this day, In the Mount of the LORD it shall be provided.” (Gen 22:14)
“just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her…For we are members of His body, of His flesh and of His bones.” (Eph 5:25,30)
“gave Him to be head over all things to the church, which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all.” (Eph 1:22,23)
“so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another.” (Rom 12:5)
“The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?” (1Cor 10:16)
“For as the body is one and has many members, but all the members of that one body, being many, are one body, so also is Christ.” (1Cor 12:12)
“But now God has set the members, each one of them, in the body just as He pleased.” (1Cor 12:18)
“No, much rather, those members of the body which seem to be weaker are necessary.” (1Cor 12:22)
“And those members of the body which we think to be less honorable, on these we bestow greater honor; and our unpresentable parts have greater modesty” (1Cor 12:23)
“but our presentable parts have no need. But God composed the body, having given greater honor to that part which lacks it” (1Cor 12:24)
“that the Gentiles should be fellow heirs, of the same body, and partakers of His promise in Christ through the gospel” (Eph 3:6)
“I now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up in my flesh what is lacking in the afflictions of Christ, for the sake of His body, which is the church” (Col 1:24)
“Therefore I endure all things for the sake of the elect, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.” (2Tim 2:10)

“If anyone among you thinks he is religious, and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this one’s religion is useless. Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.” (Jm 1:26-27)

Reading: Deut 22-24; Matt 24